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Originally Posted by tony404
Also we installed saddam and after he gassed all those people , we still did business with him.The pic of him shaking hands with rumsfield was after that happened. Also lets talk about Bush the first who told those poor people to rise up against saddam and we will help you and we did nothing.
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Can't quite remember the year, but even before Saddam was placed into office, it was already known he was a thug and that was the basis of engaging him to assassinate the democratically-elected Finance Minister of Iran. Saddam spent almost six months getting briefed in a London hotel by the CIA and, eventually, the assassination succeeded.
BUT... everything blew backwards and the religious element in Iran then took over - exactly what the US did not want (they wanted oil deals at the time), and then the "friendly thug" was armed up to create a war with Iran - another attempt by the US to screw Iran for oil.
Odd when you look back at history - it gets clearer as to how folks may feel about "western imperialism" when they have went thru constant attempts at screwing them
